SENIOR HIGH SCHOLL STUDENT’S METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES IN TRIGONOMETRIC PROBLEM SOLVING

  • ANA RAHAYU

Abstract

Abstract

This research described the metacognitive strategy of three 10th grade students’ based on students’ mathematics ability, namely high, medium, and low as they worked on three trigonometric problems. They used as much time as they needed in solving each problem. Then data collection held in a one-to-one setting between the participant and the researcher, and concentrated on the participants’ involvement in investigations of metacognitive strategy in trigonometric problem solving.  They continuously thought aloud and engaged in a conversation describing their thinking and behaviours. The individual interviews took place shortly after the participants finished solving each problem where we talked comfortably about the participant’s process of metacognitive strategy in trigonometric problem solving session. Based on the result of analysis, student with high mathematics ability did metacognitive strategy such as planning, monitoring, and evaluation. She could predict the correctness her work and detected her own mistake. Student with medium mathematics ability did metacognitive strategy such as planning and evaluation. She could detect her mistake but could not correct them into the right one. Students’ metacognitive strategy with low mathematics ability not did monitoring and evaluation. He did his work well in full of confidence but there were a lot of mistakes that he could not detect. Based on the data analysis and discussion about the senior high school students’ metacognitive strategy in trigonometric problem solving, this research is appropriate with the former researches that has been done such as research by Schoenfield (1987), Swanson (1990), Haidar & Naqabi et al (2008), and Java (2014). Furthermore, it can be concluded that the metacognitive strategy should be used to predict the successfulness of mathematical problem solving and to detect student mistake or misunderstanding while doing the task.

Keywords: metacognitive strategy, trigonometry, mathematics problem solving.  

Published
2018-02-19
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